Writing Effective Prompts for Generative AI (WEPGAI) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1 - Understanding Generative AI

Topics:

  • Gen AI vs. AI/ML
  • Gen AI Applications
  • Business Impact of Gen AI

Objectives:

  • Define generative AI as a subset of AI.
  • Discuss the potential impact of AI on organizations .
  • Provide examples of generative AI applications.

Module 2 - Prompt Design

Topics:

  • Prompt content types.
  • Prompt design strategies.
  • Iterating prompts for improvement.

Objectives:

  • Understand the role of context and examples in prompts.
  • Iterate on prompts to improve model output.

Activities:

  • Lab: Introduction to Prompt Design

Module 3 - Improving Prompts

Topics:

  • Prompt design versus prompt engineering
  • Zero-shot and few-shot prompting
  • Chain-of-thought prompting
  • Overview of additional techniques

Objectives:

  • Describe the difference between prompt design and prompt engineering.
  • Write prompts using few-shot and chain-of-thought techniques.
  • Learn about additional prompt engineering techniques being used today.

Activities:

  • Lab: Improving your Prompts

Module 4 - Working with Multimodal Models

Topics:

  • What is a multimodal model?
  • Prompt design strategies
  • Best practices for multimodal prompts
  • Troubleshooting your multimodal prompt

Objectives:

  • Understand the multimodal models and their use cases.
  • Design effective prompts for multimodal models.

Activities:

  • Lab: Writing Prompts for Gemini Pro Vision